Pay & Salary Calculators

About Pay & Salary Calculators

A standard Australian working week runs 38 hours under the National Employment Standards (NES), or roughly 1,976 hours across the year. Our salary tools subtract income tax, the Medicare levy, and any HECS-HELP repayment so you can see what genuinely lands in your bank account. As of 1 July 2026, the national wage floor sits at $26.44 per hour, which works out to $1,004.90 weekly for ordinary full-time schedules.

Extra hours beyond your ordinary roster usually attract penalty multipliers: 1.5x for the initial two or three additional hours, then 2x thereafter, although the precise loading depends on your modern award or enterprise agreement. When taking holidays, many workers also receive a 17.5% loading on accrued annual leave, a long-standing entitlement preserved from the era of the centralised wage system.

If your role becomes redundant, the Fair Work Act sets out a sliding scale of severance: four weeks of base wages for 1-2 years of continuous service, scaling up to sixteen weeks once you cross nine years. Notice of termination sits on top of that severance, and any untaken holiday balance must be cashed out at the time of departure. Long service leave operates separately under state legislation and typically accrues after seven to ten years with the same employer. A worker earning $85,000 gross, for example, would clear roughly $65,000 after PAYG withholding, Medicare and the HECS obligation that kicks in above the $69,528 repayment threshold. Casual workers receive a 25% loading instead of paid leave, while shift penalties for evening, weekend or public-holiday work can push effective compensation well beyond the headline rate. Apprentices, junior staff and supported employees with disability follow distinct rate schedules published by the Fair Work Commission, which reviews them annually each June.

Official sources: Fair Work Australia · NES Overview

Built by Konstantin Iakovlev. Data sourced from official Australian government publications.